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Profs Receive 'Anti-Semitic Material'
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 29, 2007
Two Teachers College faculty members received anti-Semitic materials Thursday, according to an e-mail sent to TC students by Provost Tom James.
In his message, James wrote that TC reported the incidents to the New York City Police Department and consulted Jewish civil rights advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League. In order to protect the privacy of the faculty members involved, James wrote that TC will not release their names.
“As always, Teachers College deplores these hateful acts and takes them extremely seriously,” James stated. The incident came two-and-a-half weeks after a noose was hung on the door of a TC professor and anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a bathroom stall in Lewisohn Hall.
The student senate will hold a vigil Tuesday night to discuss this and other recent bias incidents at Teachers College.
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"In linguistics and ethnology" . . . Spare us your literal-minded pedantics, commentator. "Antisemitic" in this context simply means "Jew-bashing." Don't distract from the matter that sending this material is meant to frighten the profs and have Jews looking over their shoulders.
The previous commentator has it right, though. I would add that after throwing the stuff in the trash, the recipients of the material should simply let the bosses know this stuff is floating around campus, check that their weapons are cocked and locked, and go on with the business of teaching.
Why is it that every time some piece of garbage turns up in someone's mailbox, a major crisis ensues, complete with portentous remarks from provosts and such. Doesn't anyone know what a wastebasket is for?
"In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical "Shem", Hebrew: שם, translated as "name", Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages. This family includes the ancient and modern forms of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Phoenician, Maltese, Tigre and Tigrinya among others.
As language studies are interwoven with cultural studies, the term also came to describe the extended cultures and ethnicities, as well as the history of these varied peoples as associated by close geographic and linguistic distribution. The late 19th century term "anti-Semitism" refers specifically to hostility toward Jews, further complicating the understood meaning and boundaries of the term."
I am not sure why the educational elite in colleges and universities still bias the usage of the words "Semite" and "anti-Semite" to include only Jews in their definition of these terms when Semite actually demotes a rather large ethnicity. I suspose if David Horitwitz condemned the backwater religion of the Jews and the Muslems for depriving millions of children the pleasure of eating Jimmy Dean sausage, this would be trully called anti-Semitic.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Who wrote, "Step on a Pettyflogger or a Quack, Break a Jewish Mother's Back" on the bathroom walls this time?
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